Ben Backes
American Institutes for Research
18 Papers
58 Citations
Ben Backes is an academic researcher from American Institutes for Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Affirmative action & Test (assessment). The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 18 publications.
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Papers
Do Affirmative Action Bans Lower Minority College Enrollment and Attainment? Evidence from Statewide Bans
TL;DR: This paper examined whether minority students were less likely to enroll in a four-year public college or receive a degree following a statewide affirmative action ban and found that black and Hispanic enrollment dropped at the top institutions; however, there is little evidence that overall black enrollment at public universities fell.
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The Effect of Banning Affirmative Action on College Admissions Policies and Student Quality
Kate Antonovics,Ben Backes +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that UC campuses changed the weight given to SAT scores, high school GPA, and family background in response to California’s ban on race-based affirmative action, and that these changes were able to substantially offset the fall in minority admissions rates.
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Is the pen mightier than the keyboard? The effect of online testing on measured student achievement
Ben Backes,James Cowan +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the performance of computer-based testing in Massachusetts over two years to investigate test mode effects, and found an online test penalty of about 0.10 standard deviations in math and 0.25 standard deviation in English language arts.
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Were minority students discouraged from applying to university of california campuses after the affirmative action ban
Kate Antonovics,Ben Backes +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, student-level data was used to investigate how the college application behavior of underrepresented minorities changed in response to the 1998 end of affirmative action in admissions at the University of California (UC).
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Benefit or Burden? On the Intergenerational Inequity of Teacher Pension Plans:
Ben Backes,Dan Goldhaber,Dan Goldhaber,Cyrus Grout,Cory Koedel,Shawn Ni,Michael Podgursky,P. Brett Xiang,Zeyu Xu +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use administrative micro-data from four states, combined with national pension funding data, to show that public school teachers in the United States are enrolled in defined benefit (DB) pension plans.
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